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bas crown to he a yery large place; and

has grown to be very large place; and
in its rapid action neither stranger
nor citizen thinks to make inquiry
about a life which he considered nobly
rounded and compromised into powerful
national lineaments.
have several times been at Mr.. Buch-
anan's old homestead, near the edge of the
town Of Lancaster, where he practiced
law and accumulated an independence.
II did furnish him home for the eight
or nine years following his term of the
chief magistracy, but after making an
attempt to hold it sacred, his family sue
cessors finally felt they could no longer
stand the sacrifice, and they sold 1t to a
stranger.
WORLD OF CHANGE.
Change is written on nothing so much
as public life The homes and associa-
lions which endure are almost invariably
those of the unsuccessful, or those who
might have been considered failures in
career.
Yet there is philosophy in all this, fol
he who barriers the private for the public
station abandons his real home and
makes his home in the bosom OF events
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LADIES OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
The Roll of Those Who Still Live to Tell of
Their Life There.

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Presidents mansion. a longer period than her
stenmotber held that nlace who was married
in June, 1874, and left the White House with
her husband when his term expired, in
March, 1s45.
Mrs. Patterson. the daughter of President
Johnson, who, the wife of the latter being
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ruE STORY or MERouRY.
Classic Mythology Revised From wild
Western Standpoint.

OA''''Ao ny "sy AaesiSe" Hr"ih WHO
e''rn e'ahupoint'
Inc pictures OF Mercury which have come
down 70 us dliier from each other as much
as DO the pictures OF prominent men pub
nshed IN the daily papers OF the present day
But there are certain points OF resemblance
from which we can form general idea OF
ms appearance.
From a didactic and polemic study of his
portraits as published, we learn that his ia
vorlte dress was an abbreviated Mother Hub
bard and eomplacent grin. He wore Lang
try bangs and carried cane like dude.
sometimes ne would tie chicken wing to
each ankle, when his father sent him ON an
errand to convey to the old gentleman the
impression that he was a district messenger
boy. Then the old man would not expect
him back for month.
When child Mercury was remarkable for
his precocity, and was terror to all the
neighbors living in the same alley. If the
account given in back number of the Olya-
plan Gazette can be relied upon, it was only
few hours after his birth that Mercury de
cided that no pent-up cradle should confne
his powers. So he packed up his collar box
and went out to interview the natives.
He found beautiful tortoise and pro-
ceeded Immediately to make harp of its
shell. The receipt for making such instru-
ments Of torture in this way is fortunately
lost
The same day that he made this music box
he appeared in the role of cowboy. It seems
that half-brother of Mercury, Apollo by
name, owned ranch. Mercury had no cat
tie, but being a sort of Communist, he drove
| off about fifty head
He was afraid Apollo would hire some of
the neighboring Apaches to track the stolen
cattle, SO he drove them in such circuitous
way that their footprints showed them to be
going toward the place from which they had
been stolen.
This art of driving stolen cattle is also lost
now, and many industrious gentlemen ON
the frontier engaged in the business would
no doubt pay a large sum cash down for the
rediscovery of the original method
Mercury got the cattle safely to Cyllene q
city in which his father was alderman. Then
he crawled back to his cradle and was.once
more an innocent babe.
admit that this story sounds fishy, but it
is sample of what one must expect in
study ,, o. the biographies of these effete gods
M e s.'.s.1se.'i,
nossess;or of b;s hot, Ill 80.
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GENERAL IoGAN,s BOOK.


A Work That is Sure to Provoke Some
Exceedingly Bitter Controversies.
General John A. Logan's new book, en-
titled 1.-THE Volunteer Soldier of America,
which will soon be issued. promises to create
a sensation in military and literary circles.
A personal friend of the late senator, who
lives in Harrisburg, Pa, has received from
Mrs. Logan the prospectus and some adj
vanced sheets.
According to those who have seen thes sheets
the aim of the author seems to have been
to elevate the volunteer soldier of the repub-
lie in the late war at the expense of the reg
ulars. The early chapters are devoted to a
similar purpose with reference to the pre-
yious wars from the revolution down to the
conflict in Mexico. But the author only be-
comes peppery when the history of the re-
belIion is under treatment The West Point
Military Academy is handled with great
severity, and the so-called military lobby, by
which it is boldly charged that, during and
since the war, legislation of Congress was in
fuenced against the volunteer and in favor
of. the regular, is denounced IN terms of the
severest reproach.
The author divides the actors in the late
struggle into two classes, namely, the nat
ural soldiers and the academic soldiers. In
the former class he puts Washington, Greene,
Wayne, Putnam, Stark, Knox, and Hamll-
ton of the revolution, and Terry, Il. ID.
Sumner, Phil Kearney, Sickles, j. ID. Cox,
Birney, Frank p. Blair, McClernand, John
M. Palmer, the McCooks, Corcoran, Shields,
Thomas Francis Meagher, Thomas 3. Wing,
James A. Garfield, Lucius Fairchild, present
head of the Grand Army of the Republic,
and others. These he designates as yolun-
teers as distinguished from the academic sol
diers, meaning those who were educated at
West Point
One of the features of the work. and the
one that will probably provoke the most
comment is the reference to General Sher-
| man. That general, in his memoirs, refers
to the military achievements of General
Logan in anything but fattering terms. 1t
seems that previous to the issue of Sher-
mans book a correspondence had been
maintained between Sherman and Logan,
in which Sherman had professed the warm
est attachment for Logan and the highest
appreciation of his military services. After
the publication of the Sherman memoirs
Sherman went to Logan and appealed to his
magnanimity to keep the correspondence
concealed, and to that Logan reluctantly
yielded. Sherman tried to induce the Illi-
nois senator to surrender to him the letters,
but to this request refusal was returned.
Since the death of Logan his friends in and
out of the army have prevailed on Mrs.
Logan to allow the correspondence to be in
serted in the forthcoming book. They
reasoned that justice to the memory of her
late husband made such course necessary,
| and Mrs. Logan has consented.
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distance of the object looked at, which
renders it easy to state that power in
popular and easily-understood form. If
a telescope magnifies 100 diameters 1t viii
bring its object apparently 100 times as
near as it really is The mean distance
of the moon is about $40 900 miles. With
telescope magnifying 100 diameters it
would, therefore, appear to be brought
within 2, 400 miles of the earth. Now the
Lick telescope, under the most favorable
conditions, may bear magnifying power
of 5000 diameters That would bring the
moon within an apparent distance of be-
tween sixty-six and sixty miles. At
such distance it would be very difficult to
detect any but the coarser features of
landscape. Artificial works, if any ex-
listed, would have. to be ofsgreat size to
be seen. A structure like the Pyramid
of Cheops would be visible as spot, and
possibly its shape might be made out by
close study of the shadows 1t cast and its
varying appearance under different
illuminations. In fact, it is by the
shadows of objects upon it that we learn
more of the moons surface than in any
other way. Owing to the absence of any
appreciable atmosphere shadows upon
the moon are as black as ink. A build
ing like the Washington monument
standing on the lunar surface would be
invisible to us when the sun shone perpen-
dicularly upon it. But with rising or
setting sun it would cast long spire of
shadow that the Lick telescope might be
able to show
Of course a city on the moon would be
visible, and would probably be recogniz-
able as such. Cut piece of paper an
Il 4.
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FADED vIoLETs.
BY CHARLES KENT.

Faded violets-three or four,
Forgotten in my corner drawer,
And only now just brought to light.
While dressing for the ball tonight.
While hunting for the other glove,
found this pledge of rarely love,
Which, like ghost of dear friend dead,
Recalls the days that too soon fled,
And makes again with former zest.
The joys that thrilled my happy breast.
How soft and white that hand petite,
That shyly gave the violets sweet
As parting at the rustic gate
went to meet another fate.
said goodbye and went away
Cher weddings in the Times today,
And am still happy s'bach,"
Heart-whole, tho marred by many scratch.
Twas my intent t-this same bali,
To offer Kate my heart and all
Ny worldly goods to her endow;
do not think I'll do it now,
For since these violets, limp and gray.
Turned up to taunt and seem to say
Where are all the VOWS you plighted,
Ere we were withered, dead and blighted ~
Where J alb, gone, where all things must,
Ashes to ashes and dust to DUST,
Oh! hang old memories, hang dead flowers
The past embitters present hours.
To dance tonight would be no Joke,
! guess I'll stop at home and smoke.
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In view, then, of this widespread and
laudable curiosity about an instrument
that represents the browning achieve
ment of the telescope-maker, it is well
worth while to inquire what the Lick
telescope will really be able to do. In
answering that question there are three
principal points to be kept in view: First,
the size of the telescope; second, the
quality of its workmanship, and third, its
location. In all of these respects the
Lick telescope stands in the front rank.
The true measure of the size of tele-
scope-reflecting telescopes like Lord
Rogge's are here left out of consideration,
although similar rule would apply to
them-is the diameter of the object
glass, that is, the large glass in the end of
the tube furthest from the eye. The object
glass of the Lick telescope is three feet
across, ten inches broader than the Brob-
dinagian eye of the great telescope of the
Naval Observatory at Washington. But
those ten inches represent far mightier
increase of power than the uninitiated
would suppose. They enable the Lick
glass to grasp twice as much light as the
Washington glass can do. More accu-
rately speaking, while the Washington
telescope-collects 10000 times as many
rays of light as the unaided human eye can
do, the Lick telescope will collect 80, 400
times as many rays as the eye is able to
grasp. The great telescope recently set up
at Pulkowa, in Russia, has an object-glass
thirty inches in diameter, giving 1t light
grasping power about two-thirds as great
as that of the Lick telescope
AS to workmanship, the same master
hand that shaped the lenses of the Wash
ington and Pulkowa instruments made
the object-glass for the Lick telescope,
the hand of the veteran Alvan Clark who
is everywhere acknowledged to be the
worlds greatest telescope-maker That
ably with the l pfevfH86tHsn smost favor
his art was shown during the trials to
which II was subjected at Cambridge be-
fore 1t was sent to California
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Origin of orhe Old Folks at Home.

Once over the bar at its entrance from the
gulf the Suwanee river holds its way with
deep current in places of forty feet, far up
through the forests of the best hard pine in
the State. II is the Penobscot of Florida 1t
tons have heretofore been made, but after a
while generally abandoned. The dark river
has, too, its romance as being the place
which gave rise to a melody which, like
Home, Sweet Home" the affection of the
heart will never let go. For it was here that
French family in the time of Louis XIV
came over and settled upon the Suwanee and
made plantation. After while the father
and mother and all died save one daughter,
who. disheartened and desolate, returned to
France, and there wrote, adopting in part
that negro dialect which she had been
familiar with ON the plantation in her girl
hood, feeling tribute to ''the old folks at
home" in their graves in the far-off country.
Augusta (Gd.) ChroRicle.
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pitched his home, and at the ruin time
had made in the condition of his adopted
children and their families.
He, too, though he exercised more per.
sonal power than any of our Presidents
and destroyed arbitrarily great fiscal in
situations like the United States banks,
had to be q borrower from some of his
otfice-holders, having failed to continue
to the end of his life the commercial
character he sustained in his earlier DAYS
as an industrious trader, jockey and
planter.
His successor, Van Buren,, derived
from his Holland Dutch parents gen
uine love of his local village and its
scenes, and, having been a thrifty, care
full man who had made fortune at the
bar and from saving his public salaries,
he had means to extend and ornament a
rather superior house when he retired,
but found it possessed by farmer who
took not the least interest in the story of
Van Buren,, and would not let d stranger
pry into the dwelling
The old man visited and moved about
until age overlook him and his faculties
began to be seriously impaired, and SO he
glided into the grave after the commence
ment of the great civil war, almost as
much unknown. as if he had been some
colonial governor of New York.
In his case, too, his real story is not to
be found at Undertook, but In the stat
utes and archives of the country. You
will know more about him from picking
up some stray and forgotten volume than
by attempting to arouse and stimulate the
"reminiscences of his neighbors.
HARRISON, TYLER AND POLK.
President Harrison is not to be seen in
the Western localities, where he had his
abodes, but in the pages of development
of all that great West Of which he was
the youthful guardian, and in the visage
of his descendant who still occupies the
public councils.
John Tyler lived long while after his
time, and was one of the most successful
American officeholders, but the solitary
vestige of him which attracts attention Is
his widow.
Mr.. Polk has also left widow, most
interesting lady, who bore him no chill
dren, and choosing his homestead in the
large town of Nashville, he has certain
degree of permanenee, like print which
was not thrown away in portfolio or
drawer, but was supplied with frame
and hung upon the wall to survive an
other generation. He had his tomb made
in his front yard, in the midst of Nash
vile society--a curious thing and cur
iously placed. Though the Mexican war
was fought in his administration, and
great territory added to the Union, his
papers and letters remain untouched, the
busy hand of succeeding times not hay
ing had the impetus or curiosity to 70
back and arrange the story of hts deeds.
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THE DEVASTATION OF FASHION.
Birds and Brutes Threatened with Exter-
mination to Supply Trade.

Birds and Brutes Threatened with Exter-
mination to supply Trade.
There seems TO be no limit to the devasta-
ton of fashion, says writer in OR Country
Home, The process Of exterminating birds
of gay plumage for the decoration of ''loves
of bonnets' has gone so far that the scientific
world has lifted up both hands in protest.
The elephant seems destined to become a
curiosity of the past on account of the I'M
sparing greed for ivory, which gives him no
chance perpetuate his species The Indian
government has tried to protect him by
stringent season laws, but statutes are almost
powerless against human avarice. The croc-
odile bids fair to go. since his hide Is wanted
by the purse-makers and shoemakers. There
will soon be no bird of paradise upon earth.
and the ostrich has only escaped through the
thrift of private breeders. The ouagga. the
beautiful wild striped ass of South Africa
has become extinct because the sportsmen OF
London and New York craved boots from
his hide; If only tigers claws had become
fashionable for bonnet gewgaws and
brooches, tigers would have become rem
iniscence before now. The caprices of fashion
consume. faster than nature can create
What will be the end oft? Long before the
earth can cool, man will have devoured all
ITS natural products and will live merely
upon what he manufactures,
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fawn, mode, the various peach shades,
sage and chartreuse green, and electric
blue. are some of these. To wear en-
suite with tailor suits of cloth and like
fabrics, satin braid, straw, and chip bon
nets and hats are seen in the ever popular
shades of blue and dark and light brown,
trimmed with ribbon, gauze, and flower
sprays. Birds and bird plumage have
been entirely superseded by flowers, un..
less an exception be made in the case OF
such hats as are intended exclusively for
travelling and hard service. Ostrich
feathers are effectively used on these tall
.chspeaux, massed in clusters, as many as
six and eight at once. A stylish hat was
tafIIcrowned Gainesborough of brown
straw, with trimming of white Grape
andsWhite ostrich plumes.
NORMA BLAKE.
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the writer.

Reading has been my pioneer to travel,
and after having had twenty-seven years
of it / sometimes wonder. if successful
personages are worth following up. That
all is vanity is the inevitable lesson of
discovering them as they lived.
Indeed, great mans house is not
more consequential to his influence than
the shell of some molluscous animal
which used it for a time and then melted
away.
WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON.
Mount Vernon, for instance, was Wash
ington's home and is his grave, but hardly
any of his real public life was either
passed or projected there. He was eight
years surveyor on the mountains, Was
eight years in the army and eight years
in the presidency All that he did at
Mount Vernon was to arrange his papers
and entertain curiosity-seekers and play
at fancy farming. There he died under
circumstances of privation, for he could
not get doctor for night and half a
day after he was taken ILL.,
Mr.. Jefferson's home at Monticello has
always been dismal ruin when have
visited it, his gravestone picked to pieces
by schoolboys and idiots; and those
! things he prided himself on in house
keeping were not good, such as sleeping,
not ON q bedstead, but in plastered al
cove, which was damp and had no
draught of air upon it. Yet he began to
make his home long before he was man
of political consequence, although he was
in continuous public life for nearly fifty
years.
He thought, above all things, that Mon
ticello was a success, and imported his
window sashes for it from England, and
! fused and correspondent about it with
everybody until at last he had to solicit
help to retain it at all and in that day
as in this, presents of money were sent
to him from New York, Philadelphia and
South Carolina, and he besought the
Legislature of Virginia, much against its
conscience, to let him base a lottery upon
its premises.
MONROE, JACKSON AND VAN buren,.
Poor Monroe also got himself into a
mansion especially made for retirement
but the sheriff interviewed and drove him
out, and he had to drift off to New York
city and live under the roof of his SON
in-law; and there he died in the fear OF
necessity, although he had drawn more
salaries, up TO tine Time of his death
than any American who had ever lived
in the public employment
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He Did Know Raans.

Pateriamilias (who has invited his daugh
ters beau to have little refreshment)-
"What'll you have, John? A little ham
cold roast beef cold chicken or-2' John
"a true Bostonian)-" Amt those baked
beans in that dish2" P.-"They are. Have
someF'
Daughters Little Brother (who has been
permitted to sit up little while longer than
usuall- Ha Jennie, | have caught you.
thought you were telling me story at the
time"
Jennie" What do you mean, Johnnie Pr
Johnnie" He picked 'em out in a jiffy."
Jennie-"Picked out what? Who?p
Johnnie" Your beau. He picked out the
beans himself and you told me he didn't
know beans"
Paterfamilias lin voice of thunder)-
Johnnie go to bed"
Johnnie (bursting into tears)--" She did
pa, she did. She said he didn't know beans
or he would have proposed long ago. Dos
ton Courier.
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Earthquakes italy Has Haa.

In the general list of Italian earthquakes
2s0 serious earthquakes are noted which have
befallen the Italian peninsula since the year
400. The most disastrous ones on record
occurred in the years 1859 at the foot of
Mount Etna, with 1900 victims; 1856, in
the Neapolitan provinces, with $4,000 VIC
TINS; 1927, in the province of Puglia, 1000
victims; 1888, in Calabria, 1900 victims;
1853, in Sicily, $4,000 victims; 1908, in Cen
tral Italy, $4,000 victims; 1888 in Calabria.
5000 victims 1905, in Terra di Lavoro'
5000 victims; 1857, in Basilicata, u, 800 vic.
Tins; 1885, in Ischia, 2,515.-London Daily
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THE STAR DEPTHS.
WONDERS THAT THE LICK TELE.
SCOPE WILL REVEAL.

The Largest Lenses Ever turned toward
the Heavens to Gather the Light of the
Stars-The Moon Brought Within Sixty
six Miles of the Earth--A Volcanic Chaos.
During the coming summer there will
be erected upon the summit of Mount
Hamilton, in California, in huge dome
already prepared for it, the greatest re-
fracting telescope the world ever saw or
ever likely to see unless the art of the
glass-maker and of the lens-grinder
should take some marvellous leap in adj
vance. 1t is quite natural that universal
curiosity should be awakened as to the
probable extent of the yet untried pow
ers of this monster telescope. The
eyes not only of all astronomers, but Of
the intelligent reading public all over the
world, are turning impatiently toward
Mount Hamilton, and one of the first
questions that an astronomer hears in a
miscellaneous assemblage is: "What do
you think the Lick telescope will showY'
If Mr.. James Lick, who charged his ex-
ecutors to construct the most powerful
telescope in existence, could hear the buzz
of expectation that the near accomplish
ment of his behest has awakened he
would probably already feel repaid for
his generosity,
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The extraordinary mortality in the family
of the Baron Duradd excited the suspicious
Of the French customs police after that gem
tlenian had crossed the Belgian boundary
four times in as many months, travelling
each time withaa Theoretically sealed coffin,
near relative. The last time they opened
thecoffin against his fearful INCONSISTENCIES,
and found in it, instead of corpse, a mass
of fine cigars and expensive smoking tobacco,
upon which no duty had been paid. The
baron mourns now in Jail.